Hey guys...how is everyone? It's getting awfully empty around here (Kim wipes cobwebs off of the thread).
I'm doing my best to be reasonable when I eat, but I haven't been an angel, trust me.
Still at it with the gym stuff, though. I've gained 3 pounds! Can you believe this? But I feel better, so I'm concentrating on that. Maybe I've gained some muscle, and eventually it's going to help me attack all that fat I want to rid myself of.
I've been reading up on exercise and dieting lately. And I realize more than ever before how hard it really is to do. Once you get into it, and it becomes a way of life, it shouldn't be too tough. But getting there, wow! You know ten minutes on the elliptical machine only burns an average of 100 calories or so for me? I probably only burn off half of my subway sandwich or a soda when I do the full 30 minutes. It's frustrating when you look at it that way. So I'm trying not to. I'm going to keep on building muscle to fight the fat, and I'm going to attempt to eventually up my aerobic workout to 45 minutes...and then someday...maybe an hour. But we're taking it slow right now.
30 minutes is all I've been doing, but I'm thinking about trying for 35 tonight. Then I'm going to lift the weights, and come back to do ten minutes more! If I break it up like that, eventually I can do an hour split into 45 and 15...then maybe someday a consecutive 60 minutes. I'd burn 700 calories after 60 minutes! 5 days a week, that's 3500 calories...you know what that equals...One pound! Just from the aerobic workout. If I watch what I eat some more and keep building muscle, it'll just get easier and easier.
I'm trying to look at it in a real positive light. Plus, before, when all I did was diet, it was harder, because I had no muscle to help me burn my calories. I'm a total wuss (and I'm trying to fix that). I wouldn't have had definition either, because I wasn't working out at all.
I wish you all luck, ladies!!! Hope the scale starts to look prettier for all of us soon...although it's not the numbers, it's how you feel! I'm feeling pretty good!
~Kim
(now: 172ish/ someday: 138ish)